According to the disclosure of the present description, a method in which a terminal cooperates with another terminal to transmit data to a base station is provided. The method comprises the following steps: if data to be transmitted to a base station exists, mutually exchanging data with another cooperative terminal which belongs to the same cooperative cluster; transmitting, to the base station, a request message for an allocation of an uplink resource for transmitting the data; receiving, from the base station, a permission message for the uplink resource; and, upon receipt of the permission message, transmitting the data and data of said other terminal using the uplink resource in accordance with the permission message.
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1. A method of receiving data cooperatively transmitted by a first terminal and a second terminal in a communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, by the first terminal, an uplink resource allocation request messages to a base station; receiving, by the first terminal, one or more uplink resource grant messages from the base station; transmitting, by the first terminal, uplink data using the received one or more uplink resource grant messages; receiving, by the first terminal, a negative response message from the base station, wherein the negative response message indicates that the transmission of uplink data is not received by the base station; upon receiving the negative response message, transmitting, by the first terminal, a cooperation request message to the second terminal; receiving, by the first terminal, a cooperation response message from the second terminal, wherein the cooperation request message and the cooperation response message are communicated between the first terminal and the second terminal without intervention from the base station, wherein the first terminal and the second terminal belong to same cooperative cluster, wherein the cooperation response message includes identifiers for the first terminal and the second terminal, and cooperative cluster information, and wherein the identifiers of the first terminal and the second terminal are unique identifiers or temporary identifiers; and sharing, by the first terminal, the data between the first terminal and the second terminal using assigned uplink resource information from the second terminal, wherein the first terminal and the second terminal are in the cooperation relationship based on the cooperative cluster information, and wherein the cooperative cluster information is generated by mutual cooperation between the first terminal and the second terminal.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the assigned uplink resource information includes one or more of information on an uplink resource assigned to the first terminal.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: transmitting the uplink data of the first terminal and the data of the second terminal to the base station after the data sharing between the first terminal and the second terminal.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the data of the first terminal and the data of the second terminal are subjected to concatenation or permutation.
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